Dawn in Arctic Alaska

by Diamond Jenness

Book Overview

"The Karluk had disappeared. Whether the vessel had freed itself from the ice and steamed eastward, or whether, still imprisoned, it had been carried by the ice westward, we could not know. In any case it was gone, leaving our hunting party of six men marooned on a sandy islet surrounded by thin ice and open water. The wind finally died away, in the calm air the water rapidly froze over again, and on September 30 we crossed with our two sleds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226397416
• ISBN13: 9780226397412
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"